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    "id": 928158,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisumu East, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Shakeel Shabbir",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": "Our IEBC is not institutionalised. There is no real division of roles between the board and the secretariat. The Chairman wants to be the secretariat and those who are in the Secretariat want the position of the Chairman. The issue basically is that nobody knows what he is doing. As a result, systems are set up and taken over from other organisations. The Cambridge Analytica system was adopted. We have had other issues where the IEBC has gone ahead in short term to buy things which were then thrown away and were never used. As we are looking at the IEBC, we need to see how we will institutionalise them and give them independence not only financially, but also from the Executive control. Who will run the Commission? They should be in the same status as the Judiciary which has its problems. The IEBC must also aim to be independent. I am sorry because the motions and proposals which I see from the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs are not the solutions, but a temporary band-aid. Right now, the IEBC has three commissioners. The irony and joke of the commissioners who resigned is that …."
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